Lots of Sun Today But Rainy Weekend Ahead In Beaver County

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 14TH, 2019

 

TODAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 73.

TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 55.

SATURDAY – CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS. OCCASIONAL
RAIN SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH – 75.

SUNDAY – VARIABLE CLOUDS WITH SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS. STORMS MAY CONTAIN
STRONG GUSTY WINDS. HIGH – 77.

Underground Railroad To Be Remembered In New Brighton This Weekend

The City of New Brighton is honoring those who escaped slavery, by putting monuments at safe houses located in town. Beaver County Radio News Intern, Kristian Biega, has more…

County Commissioner Egley Says Volunteers Who Help Veterans Should Be Paid

County Commissioner, Sandie Egley, has said she would like to find a way to pay volunteers who take time out of their busy schedules to drive veterans to doctors appointments. Beaver County Radio News Intern, Christina Sainovich, has more on the story…

Link for Beaver vs. Selinsgrove 4A High School Baseball PIAA Championship on WBVP/WMBA and the Trib-Live High School Sports Network

1230 WBVP an 1460 WMBA’s Bob Barrickman and Bruce Frey have the call from Medlar Field at Lubrano Park at Penn State University of this 2019 PIAA Class 4A High School Baseball Championship Game as the WPIAL champion Bobcats battle the District 4 champion Seals. Cheer on the Bobcats as they look for their first ever school State title.

You can click on the Trib-Live Sports Network logo below at 1:05 p.m. today to be directed to the broadcast as it is being streamed Live …….

VIDEO: The 2019 Beaver County Boom Is Coming Up On June 22!

Get your dancin’ shoes ready.

The 2019 Beaver County Boom presented by Beaver County Tourism is coming up on June 22, as the Zambelli Fireworks will be blowing up over the Ohio River for all of Beaver County to see. The fireworks show will be set to music that is in conjunction with this year’s theme: “Dancing Through The Decades”.

Mark & Nate Kopsack of PUSH Beaver County spearhead the event every year, and they joined Matt Drzik on A.M. Beaver County to discuss the 2019 Boom. They were joined by County Comissioner Sandie Egley and Dr. George Zambelli (on the phone line). Along with talking about the event itself, the crew talked about how the surrounding areas (Bridgewater, Monaca, Rochester) are holding day-long festivities to commemorate the Beaver County Boom.

If you want to watch the interview again, click on the Facebook feed below!

 

It was all about the Scholars at Friendly Federal Credit Union today

(Aliquippa, Pa.) It was a special day of honoring some special scholars at Friendly Federal Credit Union in Aliquippa on Thursday June 13, 2019. Beaver County Radio’s Frank Sparks was on hand for the festivities as Friendly was honoring four outstanding students with the Anthony S. Pane and Carl D. Ross memorial scholarships. The winners for 2019 were Daniel Palmer,Christina Czambel, Shannon Langton and Julia Waszyn.  Beaver County Radio did a live broadcast from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. 

Frank interviewed Christina Czambel a 2019 Aliquippa grad who was fourth in her class. Czambel is going to be attending Carlow College, Shannon Langton who is a Hopewell grad entering her third year at Duquesne University, and Daniel Palmer a 2019 Hopewell grad who will be attending Robert Morris University.

Amy Walker the Chairman of the Scholarship Committee talked with Frank and the listeners about this years winners and how to go about becoming eligible for next years scholarships.

Amy Walker, Chairman of the Scholarship Committee Live on the air with Frank Sparks

The Beaver County Radio Pirates Treasure Chest also made an appearance along with the personality prize wheel. Two contestants won the right to chose a prize from the Pirates Treasure Chest.

Ed Hemick seen here highlighting the personality prize wheel
Another winner goes deep into the treasure chest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out the pictures of all of the fun below…..

GOP House Leaders Avoid Comment on Trump Remark

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s two top Republicans are avoiding directly addressing whether it was appropriate for President Donald Trump to say he’d listen to damaging information from a foreign entity about a political opponent. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and No. 2 GOP leader Steve Scalise have separately told reporters Thursday that questions about that are hypothetical.

Federal Agency Recommends White House Aide Conway Be Fired

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal watchdog agency is recommending that President Donald Trump fire one of his most ardent defenders, counselor Kellyanne Conway, for repeatedly violating a law that limits political activity by government workers. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel says Conway has been a “repeat offender” of the Hatch Act by disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity. A White House spokesman called the agency’s decision “deeply flawed.”

Trump Says He’d ‘Want to Hear’ Foreign Dirt on 2020 Rivals; Says His Own FBI Director is ‘Wrong’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if a foreign power offered dirt on his 2020 opponent, he’d be open to accepting it and that he’d have no obligation to call in the FBI.

“I think I’d want to hear it,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News, adding, “There’s nothing wrong with listening.”

The role of Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., in organizing a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer offering negative information on Hillary Clinton was a focus of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian meddling in the last presidential campaign.

Mueller painstakingly documented Russian efforts to boost Trump’s campaign and undermine that of his Democratic rival. But while Mueller’s investigation didn’t establish a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Trump’s campaign, Trump repeatedly praised WikiLeaks in 2016 and celebrated information exposed by Russian hackers.

One of Trump’s challengers, former Vice President Joe Biden, tweeted: “President Trump is once again welcoming foreign interference in our elections. This isn’t about politics. It is a threat to our national security. An American President should not seek their aid and abet those who seek to undermine democracy.”

Several of Trump’s other Democratic opponents in the 2020 race, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, repeated their calls to begin impeachment hearings in the wake of the president’s latest remarks.

Trump’s comments came just a month after he pledged not to use information stolen by foreign adversaries in his 2020 reelection campaign, even as he wrongly insisted he hadn’t used such information to his benefit in 2016.

During a question-and-answer session with reporters in the Oval Office in May, Trump said he “would certainly agree to” that commitment.

“I don’t need it,” he said as he met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. “All I need is the opponents that I’m looking at.”

Trump also insisted erroneously that he “never did use, as you probably know,” such information, adding: “That’s what the Mueller report was all about. They said no collusion.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers that Donald Trump Jr. should have called his agency to report the offer.

But Trump, who nominated Wray to the role in 2017, told ABC News that he disagrees. “The FBI director is wrong,” the president said. He added, “Life doesn’t work like that.”

Asked whether his advisers should accept information on an opponent from Russia, China or another nation or call the FBI this time, Trump said, “I think maybe you do both,” expressing openness to reviewing the information.

“I think you might want to listen,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called, from a country — Norway — we have information on your opponent. Oh, I think I’d want to hear it.”

Ortiz’s Wife Says He ‘Continues to Heal’

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The wife of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz says he remains in guarded condition at a Boston hospital and “continues to heal and make progress.” Tiffany Ortiz in a statement released by the team Thursday also thanked Eliezer Salvador, the man who drove Ortiz to the hospital after Sunday night’s shooting in his native Dominican Republic, “and the medical staff at the Abel González Clinic who took care of him.